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    Supports→The reduplication argument alone does not settle how much of our thought is direct reference versus thought by description.

    The reduplication argument establishes only that some direct reference exists, not its scope.

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    We thus have a spectrum of views that agree that there is direct reference to individual in thought and language but disagree about its scope, from Russell's restrictive view of direct reference, according to which an agent can only think directly about her occurrent sense data, to the liberal view of direct reference held by Kaplan and Jeshion, according to which objects that have never been perceived can be thought about directly. All of these views respect the intuition that Sally's thoughts

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